04-24-2003, 10:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Seeing Some Cheesy/Stupid Ads? Here's Why...
I received an email today from Paul Ivaska. He has allowed me to share this message with you all. I think everyone needs to understand something about our advertising on the site. Here's the message from Paul:
"That was a truly crummy, cheap shot, advertisement. It is the Your Banner #184B6832 has won our hourly contest. You guys are way way above that type of stuff. I thought it would be of the quality that you usually have concerning contests but this was as about as low as you can get. It is no different than spamming me with garbage. Take that stuff off of your website before you loose friends and customers."
And here's my response:
"Sorry, that's the perils of third party ad servers like Tribal Fusion. We put up their code, and when we run out of paying advertisers, it rolls over to the Tribal Fusion stuff - and while they usually feed us technology-related ads, sometimes cheesy contest ads slip through. It's almost impossible for me to keep up on the ads they activate - they just appear. If I had paying advertisers to fill up our inventory on a consistent basis, I wouldn't need to use Tribal Fusion. :-("
I hope that explains why sometimes you'll see ads that might seem "beneath" our site. I try to block any of the "personal" ad types and the really lame ones, but it's almost impossible to keep up with them, so I'd ask for a bit of grace from each of you.
But if you all click on the good ads to check out what my REAL sponsors are offering, I won't need to rely on third party ad servers at all because we won't have a shortage of advertisers. :mrgreen:
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04-24-2003, 10:29 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 739
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I thought the ad about "hip pain" or whatever was pretty funny. Obviously not targeted to the demographics of this site! :lol: :mrgreen: :lol:
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04-24-2003, 10:31 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 739
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p.s.: some people will complain about anything. To them I would say, has that flashing banner ad injured you personally somehow? :roll:
Our kind administrator does need to make a living, you know.
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04-24-2003, 10:43 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 62
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that's a fair enough answer from jason...you gotta do what you gotta do.
speaking of "low ads"....it's gotta be the ad that said "do you agree with the war...vote". you click on it and it takes you to a commercial site nothing to do with war or voting.
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04-24-2003, 10:47 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 312
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Jason, why don't you implement something of the sort Brighthand currently has - Contributing Members - getting some donations does not hurt + members who contribute might get a nice Contributing Member appearing under their profile.
I do not mind the ads - as long as they are not popups!
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04-24-2003, 10:47 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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wait you mean i didn't win?
I am very upset i thought i had truely won something special. I already started spending out of my savings account figuring my winnings would cover the new computer toys i bought. oh oh
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04-24-2003, 11:11 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by bdeli
Jason, why don't you implement something of the sort Brighthand currently has - Contributing Members - getting some donations does not hurt + members who contribute might get a nice Contributing Member appearing under their profile. I do not mind the ads - as long as they are not popups!
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We'll be implementing something very similar to what Brighthand is doing, only a bit more fun. :-)
Regarding pop-up/under ads....NEVER! But I will say that I see the appeal for some Webmasters. For normal 468 x 60 banner ads many of the rates are about $1 for 1000 loads of that ad. Pop-under ads pay about 5 to 7 times more than that...so if you're a Webmaster in desperate need of cash to keep a site running...
I'll shut down the site before it comes to that though. :-)
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04-24-2003, 11:15 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 312
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I'll shut down the site before it comes to that though. :-)
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NEVER!!!! We will pay to keep you in business!
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04-24-2003, 11:17 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 416
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I'll shut down the site before it comes to that though. :-)
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Right!!! Hey bdeli, can you spot me a few bucks???
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04-24-2003, 11:24 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 312
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I'll shut down the site before it comes to that though. :-)
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Right!!! Hey bdeli, can you spot me a few bucks??? |
I'm broke but will fork out some $$ to keep this site up!
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